grammar Nazi

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grammar Nazi

Someone who insists on correcting or criticizing others for errors in spelling, grammar, and syntax, especially to a pedantic or self-righteous degree. Potentially offensive due to its reference to the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party, which was brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler. It irritates me to no end when people use "good" as an adverb, but I try not to be a grammar Nazi about it.

The American news agency was involved in covering up the massacres of Jews in Lviv in eastern Poland (now a part of Ukraine) organized by Nazi occupying forces by allowing Nazi censors to remove photos documenting thousands of Jewish deaths, so that foreign newspapers only received photos of victims of the Soviet police and Red Army war criminals.

The poll also showed that 61 per cent of Austrian adults wanted to see a "strong man" in charge of government, and 54 per cent said they thought it would be "highly likely" that the Nazis would win seats in they were allowed to take part in an election.

He met with Hitler and with such top Nazi officials as Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann, exhorting them to continue with their murder of the Jews in Europe and to exterminate the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Moslem World.

At the present time, Islamic terrorists, and especially the suicide bombers among them, come closest to the Nazi true believers, especially in regard to the obsession with identifying, exposing, and destroying evil.

The example of Holland is one argument in favour of this position since, after the Dutch bishops had openly and strongly upbraided the Nazi authorities, the Nazis widened their search to include hundreds of converts to Catholicism, such as Saint Edith Stein and her sister.

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